THE UTTARANCHAL (ALTERATION OF NAME) ACT, 2006 
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ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS 
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SECTIONS 

1.  Short title and commencement. 
2.  Definitions. 
3.  Alteration of name of the State of Uttaranchal. 
4.  Amendment of First Schedule to the Constitution. 
5.  Amendment of Fourth Schedule to the Constitution. 
6.  Power to adapt laws. 
7.  Power to construe laws. 
8.  Legal proceedings. 

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THE UTTARANCHAL (ALTERATION OF NAME) ACT, 2006 

ACT NO. 52 OF 2006 

[21st December, 2006.] 

An Act to alter the name of the State of Uttaranchal. 

BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-seventh Year of the Republic of India as follows:— 

1.  Short  title  and  commencement.—(1)  This  Act  may  be  called  the  Uttaranchal  (Alteration  of 

Name) Act, 2006. 

(2)  It  shall  come  into  force  on  such  date1  as  the  Central  Government  may,  by  notification  in  the 

Official Gazette, appoint. 

2. Definitions.—In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,— 

(a)  “appointed day” means the date appointed under sub-section (2) of section 1 for the coming 

into force of this Act; 

(b) “appropriate Government” means, as respects a law relating to a matter enumerated in List I 
in the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution, the Central Government, and as respects any other law, 
the State Government; 

(c)  “law”  includes  any  enactment,  Ordinance,  regulation,  order,  bye-law,  rule,  scheme, 
notification  or  other  instrument  having  the  force  of  law  in  the  whole  or  any  part  of  the  State  of 
Uttaranchal. 

3.  Alteration  of  name  of  the  State  of  Uttaranchal.—As  from  the  appointed  day,  the  State  of 

Uttaranchal shall be known as the State of Uttarakhand. 

4.  Amendment  of First  Schedule  to the  Constitution.—In  the  First Schedule  to  the  Constitution, 
under the heading “I. THE STATES”, in entry 27, under the column “Name”, for the word “Uttaranchal”, 
the word “Uttarakhand” shall be substituted. 

5.  Amendment  of  Fourth  Schedule  to  the  Constitution.—In  the  Fourth  Schedule  to  the 
Constitution, under the heading  “TABLE”, in entry 18, in the second column, for the word “Uttarachal” 
the word “Uttarakhand” shall be substituted. 

6. Power to adapt laws.—(1) For the purpose of giving effect to the alteration of the name of the 
State  of  Uttaranchal  by  section  3,  the  appropriate  Government  may,  before  the  expiration  of  one  year 
from the appointed day, by order, make such adaptations and modifications of any law made before the 
appointed day, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as may be necessary or expedient, and thereupon 
every such law shall have effect subject to the adaptations and modifications so made. 

(2) Nothing in sub-section (1) shall be deemed to prevent a competent Legislature or other competent 
authority from repealing or amending any law adapted or modified by the appropriate Government under 
the said sub-section. 

7.  Power  to  construe  laws.—Notwithstanding  that  no  provision  or  insufficient  provision  has  been 
made under section 6 for the adaptation of a law made before the appointed day, any court, tribunal or 
authority,  required  or  empowered  to  enforce  such  law,  may  construe  the  law  in  such  manner,  without 
affecting the substance, as may be necessary or proper in regard to the matter before the court, tribunal or 
authority. 

8.  Legal  proceedings.—Where  immediately  before  the  appointed  day  any  legal  proceedings  are 
pending  to  which  the  State  of  Uttaranchal  is  a  party,  the  State  of  Uttarakhand  shall  be  deemed  to  be 
substituted for the State of Uttaranchal in those proceedings. 

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1. 1st January, 2007, vide notification No. GSR 779(E), dated 29th December, 2006, see Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, 

sec. 3(ii). 

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